DOUBLE FEATURE:

المنام (The Dream)
Mohamad Malas, Syria 1987, 45 min. Arabic with English subtitles, HD File  

Shot in 1980-1981, the film is composed of interviews with Palestinians, including children, women, elderly people, and militants living in refugee camps in Lebanon. Malas asks his interviewees about their dreams at night and they all revolve around Palestine. A woman recounts her dreams about winning the war; a fedai of bombardment and martyrdom; and one man tells of a dream where he meets and is ignored by Gulf emirs. During filming Malas lived in the camps and had conversations with more than 400 people. In 1982, when the Sabra and Shatila massacres occurred, taking the lives of several people he interviewed, Malas stopped working on the project. He returned to it in 1986 to edit the many hours of footage he gathered into this 45 minute film, released in 1987. (ALFILM)


وهناك أشياء كثيرة كان يمكن أن يتحدث عنها المرء (There are so Many Things Still to Say)
Omar Amiralay, Syria/France, 1997, 52 Min. Arabic with English subtitles, HD File

A few months before dying of cancer, Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous engages in an extended conversation with his friend Omar Amiralay on the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Wannous narrates his somber and relentless reflections – an adieu to a generation for whom this conflict has been a foil for forging a political identity and its aftermath the source of all disillusion. He recounts, with regret, the lost opportunities that resulted and how the Palestinian struggle became a central part of intellectual life for an entire generation. (ALFILM)